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KP Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser sits on the stage along with other guests at the Home Economics Conference in Peshawar on Thursday. — White Star

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will allocate 70 per cent of the new educational institutions to be opened in the province to girls in order to improve female education.

This was stated by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar while speaking as chief guest at the first home economics conference organised by the Society of Home Economists at the Archives Library, Peshawar, on Thursday.

He said that the provincial government wanted to provide modern education to girls and create job opportunities for them to address their economic necessities because without education modern society could not be formed.

Mr Qaisar said that it was need of the hour to provide modern education to women without any discrimination and those educated females should play a role to share their knowledge with other women in different areas, particularly in rural localities.

Govt to provide modern education to females, says PA speaker

He said that during the last one year the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led coalition government had introduced 28 new laws in the province for maintaining good governance, bringing transparency and facilitating people.

The PA Speaker said that with the implementation of the new laws the people of the province would feel a real change and everyone would be accountable before the law.

He claimed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would be made a role model for other provinces.

About the suspension of wheat quota of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by the Punjab government, Mr Qaisar said that the Supreme Court had already given its verdict in this regard and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should take action against those who were responsible for suspension of the quota.

He said that it was responsibility of the prime minister to deal with all the provinces equally.

He said that Mr Sharif was prime minister of the country and not of Punjab province only. If he failed to fulfil his constitutional responsibilities it would be unfortunate and this would create unrest among the people of rest of the provinces, he said.

Earlier, Mr Ghani said that in the next financial year, home economics colleges would start functioning in Nowshera and Abbottabad districts.

He said that the admission process had been made easy for women in such colleges while age limit was abolished so that every female could continue education.

He maintained that free of cost education would be provided to girls with physical disabilities in the home economics colleges.

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Akram

May 23, 2014 01:37pm

good news, this could be PTI's unique selling point. But they have to carry through the project to its end conclusion.

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Ameed

May 23, 2014 04:42pm

Will Be?? Lets talk about it when this is statement turns into "ARE". So far, PTI is just raising slogans and there is nothing tangible that can be shown to prove that they are delivering.
Polio score = 0
Civil protection and security = 0
streamlining public office procedures = 0
Corruption (well, PTI is as much involved in corruption as PPP and PML-N so not much difference)

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Arsal

May 23, 2014 05:57pm

@Ameed Polio=?? That right there ends the credibility of your statement, if it had any that is.

Do you know that Peshawar was tested negative for the polio virus after like forever for the first time past month, source WHO.Just to put this in prospective both the samples from Lahore and Karachi tested positive..Do you know that they launched a Health drive across all of KPK to vaccinate the masses against polio and they are doing the same now for measles.

Please, get your facts right and stop misguiding people.

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haroon

May 23, 2014 06:20pm

PTI should first provide jobs to those with degrees then should contemplate building new institutions for education.

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Pak soul

May 24, 2014 11:37am

Great step! Educated mothers=Educated families

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Ameed

May 24, 2014 01:57pm

@Arsal, my facts are pretty clear. don't tell me that FATA has nothing to do with KPK. :-)
Can you please back your facts concerning Peshawar and rest?

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Ameed

May 24, 2014 02:05pm

@Arsal and yet another link from dawn. http://www.dawn.com/news/1103253.
5 more polio cases emerge in Fata, KP (30th April 20140

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Israr Khan Ismailzai

May 24, 2014 05:39pm

@Ameed

First step of any project is planning. One cannot achieve a goal without deciding what is it that they want. In 1 year if you are expecting miracles from PTI, that will be unfair. At least they are moving in the right direction, so please give them a chance, because we know what is happening in rest of the country where the prime minister just got 2 BMWs for 224 million rupees.

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Shaukat

May 24, 2014 06:48pm

It will be great if there are med tech and nursing schools instead of home economics.

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Ali

May 28, 2014 09:20pm

@Ameed sorry but your facts could not be more of a fiction. FATA is Federally Administered Tribal Agency that comes under the Federal jurisdiction and not under the KPK govt. Each Tribal Agency is run by a Political Agent and all the political agents report to the President of Pakistan. Know your facts before you state them. KPK govt has no jurisdiction over FATA!!!